Hi Phil, I have been asked and am struggling to assess whether there is any SEO value to the (nofollow) links in the description of a YouTube video. (ps: I agree with you that CTR is <1%)I am pasting below as extract of the source code for the YouTube video page. Now,

(1) I notice the "nofollow". Can't do much about that

(2) I also notice that the anchor text is the URL itself. And as in this case - a truncated URL. That can't be a good thing

(3) Will the bots give anchor text value to the phrase before "< a href" begins?